| The dropping of the Atomic Bomb took place on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The date of this event was at approximately at 8:15 AM on August 6, 1945. This horrific event led to the causing of many deaths killing about 80,000 people. Not only that but three days later, they were hit by another bombing which was the dropping of Nagasaki causing the death of 40,000 more people. The US was the first the use and drop a deadly atomic weaponry during the wartime. Hiroshima and Nagasaki were the first in the world to witness the power of the nuclear weapons. Japan spotted incoming US planes but didn’t really worry because they didn’t think it was anything necessary due to the small number of planes. It seemed to be the US has been working on developing an atomic weapon five years before they finally attacked Hiroshima. The US decided to drop the bomb on Japan instead of Germany to invade the Japanese mainland. The US had high hopes that the Atomic Bomb would end the war, in which it did. It took them about five years to actually decide to launch the bomb. The US was apparently warned by Einstein that the Nazi Germany already had something planned to destroy US with nuclear weapons. But little did they know, the US has been working on something way bigger as you can see. The US tested out their Atomic Weapon in the desert in New Mexico before actually dropping it on Japan to see if it actually did the damage they were expecting. Japan lost a lot of people. 80,000 plus 40,000 humans were killed using the Atomic Weapon made by the US. Which ended World War II as US hoped. In which case many historian argued that it also ignited the Cold War. The dropping of the Atomic Bomb was intense and will always be remembered. |
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